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Billy Ray Factor

Age : 25

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 08/23/2024

Location : 1900 block of Three Stars Road

City : Edmond

County : Oklahoma

State : Oklahoma

Agency : Edmond Police Department

Officer(s) :Garrett Hill, Ismael Fiorina

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during armed disturbance

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/23/2024, Billy Ray Factor, 25, was shot and killed by Edmond police officers Garrett Hill and Ismael Fiorina at a townhome complex in the 1900 block of Three Stars Road. At approximately 10:30 p.m., police responded after a resident reported seeing an unknown person around the back porch of her residence and believed the person was still nearby.
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Officers searched the area and found Factor crouched on a second-floor balcony. Body-camera footage released the following month shows officers illuminating Factor with flashlights and asking what he was doing and how he had gotten onto the balcony. Factor stood and moved toward the balcony railing.
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According to Edmond police, Factor raised a handgun and fired toward officers. Body-camera footage captured an officer shouting for him to put the weapon down, followed by gunfire. Hill and Fiorina fired at Factor, striking him. Factor died at the scene.
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Police records later established that the balcony was outside the apartment of Factor's former girlfriend. A woman was inside the bedroom adjoining the balcony during the shooting. Investigators also recovered a backpack near the scene containing Factor's belongings, including a loaded firearm magazine.
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Edmond police released body-camera footage of the shooting in September 2024. Later reporting identified the shooting officers as Garrett Hill and Ismael Fiorina. The Oklahoma County District Attorney subsequently reviewed the shooting and cleared the officers of criminal wrongdoing.
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Factor was born August 6, 1999, in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Edmond Memorial High School in 2018 and later attended Northeastern State University. His family remembered him as passionate, adventurous and devoted to his family.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND
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Garrett Hill was one of the two Edmond police officers who shot Factor. Ismael Fiorina was the second shooting officer and had approximately one year with the department at the time of the shooting.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.koco.com/article/1-person-shot-killed-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-edmond/61963048
https://www.news9.com/story/66ccf2ccbb609e89fcbe1841/details-released-in-deadly-edmond-officer-involved-shooting-suspect-identified
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-edmond-police-identifies-25-year-old-shot-by-officers-billy-ray-factor/61977522
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-edmond-police-shoot-kill-suspect-august-23-video/62365707
https://www.crawfordfuneralservice.com/obituaries/Billy-Ray-Factor?obId=32889672
https://www.readfrontier.org/special-projects/shot-by-shot-tracking-oklahoma-police-shootings-in-2024/